Ok, I was trying to figure out this morning how deep to drill the stud holes, but managed to actually get ahold of the man at pigtail himself and get the question answered. I had already made a template for the stud holes, and marked out the guitar ready for the drill press:
Once I knew that the bushings and studs were 7/8ths I could drill the holes 15/16ths deep:
I spent most of today working on another guitar, but did get around to this one. My neck binding arrived first thing this morning, so I went next to gluing the fingerboard on. I am remiss, because I was squeezing this into a busy morning, and didn't snap any shots, but it was pretty straightforward. Gluing the fingerboard on it always tricky, and I need to devise a method to make it easier to not have the board slip sliding around. After a stressful minute or two I got it clamped up where I wanted it, using a cutoff of neck binding, and a dummy nut as a guide. I made sure to clean up any squoozen out glue so that it would not present any issues for the neck binding.
This evening I took the clamps off, and checked the board. As suspected I needed to do some leveling. Here is where the fine sanding I did earlier helped out, as I could see low spots pretty quickly. There wasn't too much to sand, but I want the board to be perfectly straight before fretting.